penalogy

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Without disturbing the deep pool of penalogy, or entering at all into the question, as to whether Actisanes was right, or whether the police of New York do not overstep their authority in putting on the walls this terrible bill of attainder against certain citizens of the United States, whom their country's constitution has endeavored to protect from "infamous punishments," the student of moral science will certainly be thankful for the faces.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860